Fast Fashion and its Impacts

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 8 Economics and Business:

• How markets influence decisions about the allocation of resources to the production of goods and services, and the effect of prices on these decisions (AC9HE8K01)
• Interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues, trends and economic cause-and-effect relationships (AC9HE8S03)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Numeracy. 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 8 Economics and Business achievement standards:  Students develop a range of questions to investigate an economic and business issue. They interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues and trends, and describe economic cause-and-effect relationships.

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

• Target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

• Computer or device to conduct research
• Online Search Strategies 
• Student Worksheet

This is a Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium to high - this lesson will require the teacher to introduce terms, scaffold discussion and support research and the use of a program to create an infographic.

Create a Culture for Change (Cool+)

Quick Summary: This course will help you to tackle the tricky changes we can make for a better world, and how to guide students through this process as well.